Axel Kasseböhmer
February 9–April 7, 2018
Berlin

The new exhibition in Sprüth Magers’ Berlin gallery offers a retrospective look at the work of Axel Kasseböhmer, who passed away last year after a long illness. Though Kasseböhmer consciously pivoted away from various painting trends throughout his lifetime, his work impacted the 1980s Cologne art scene and played a key role in the development of West German painting. He leaves behind a vast, influential body of work characterized by a radical, conceptual approach to painting.

This spotlight exhibition of Axel Kasseböhmer’s oeuvre is the second show taking over the whole Berlin gallery. Many paintings in the exhibition have long been inaccessible to the public. The show’s main focus is the Walchensee (Lake Walchen) series created during the last years of his life-a never-before-seen body of work and the brilliant finale to a singular, lifelong exploration of painting as a medium.

Axel Kasseböhmer
100 x Walchensee
October 22, 2013–January 25, 2014
Berlin

Since the advent of modernism, the landscape, once among the most important genres of painting, has been relegated to an art-historical twilight zone. The genre last enjoyed prominence with the painters of Impressionism, among them Lovis Corinth. Corinth's most famous landscape paintings come from the years when he spent his summers in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, along the shores of the lake known as the Walchensee. Axel Kasseböhmer takes up this moment in art history in a series of one hundred small-format oil paintings based on motifs featuring the lake, some created near the summerhouse of Lovis Corinth, shown as a group in an exhibition entitled 100 x Walchensee. Like many landscape painters before him, Kasseböhmer pursued a private project with these pictures, creating the series after a long convalescence. The paintings not only explore the status of the landscape in contemporary art, but also investigate what, precisely, painting itself can achieve today.

Axel Kasseböhmer
Neue Arbeiten
May 29–July 26, 2008
Munich

In Axel Kasseböhmer’s latest series of pictures he returns to a principle from his early work, taking motifs from the history of art. Having begun his artistic career in the late 1970s by selecting, isolating and reinterpreting subjects taken mainly from Renaissance works – think pillars and fabric folds – Kasseböhmer now refers back to one of the most famous series of paintings in more recent art history, Paul Cézanne’s variations of Mont Sainte Victoire. Kasseböhmer, who is also a lecturer at the Kunstakademie in Munich, produced his own series of deckle-edged, oil-based watercolours in 2007–2008 entitled „Provence und Montagne Sainte Victoire“, based on Cézanne’s pictures.

Accrochage Zeichungen
George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Marie Luise Lebschik, Michail Pirgelis
September 12–October 14, 2006
Cologne

Malerei 7
Peter Fischli David Weiss, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Walter Dahn, Siegfried Anzinger, Thomas Scheibitz
October 30, 2003–January 31, 2004
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
Meereslandschaften
November 5, 1999–February 12, 2000
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
September 5–November 1, 1997
Cologne

Malerei IV
George Condo, Peter Doig, Axel Kasseböhmer
April 25–June 28, 1997
Cologne

Malerei I
Siegfried Anzinger, Ross Bleckner, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Albert Oehlen, Terry Winters
November 11, 1995–January 14, 1996
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
November 11, 1994–January 14, 1995
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
March 20–May 29, 1993
Cologne

Lying on the top of a Building the Clouds seemed no nearer than they had when I was lying on the Street
Angela Bulloch, Walter Dahn, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Tom Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Lothar Hempel, Axel Kasseböhmer, Hirsch Perlman, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
May 23–July 8, 1992
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
Bilder
November 3–December 2, 1989
Cologne

Das Licht von der anderen Seite – Teil I Malerei
Donald Baechler, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Rene Daniels, Marc Innerst, Axel Kasseböhmer, Milan Kunc, Albert Oehlen, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool
June 7–August 31, 1988
Cologne

Axel Kasseböhmer
Stilleben 1986-87
September 11–October 1, 1987
Cologne